"Antifa, which is short for anti-fascists, is not a single group. It is a loosely organised, decentralised, left-wing collective of organisations and activists in the US that opposes right-wing and fascist ideologies. Antifa is a kind of politics, not a specific group, US-based historian Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, told Al Jazeera. In the same way that there are feminist groups but feminism is not, itself, a group."
"United States President Donald Trump announced late on Wednesday that he was designating the left-wing activist movement, antifa, a terrorist organisation. On his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating Antifa, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. He added: I will also be strongly recommending that those funding Antifa be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices."
Donald Trump designated the left-wing activist movement antifa as a terrorist organization and recommended investigations into those funding Antifa under the highest legal standards. Antifa, short for anti-fascists, is a loosely organized, decentralized, left-wing collective of organizations and activists in the US that opposes right-wing and fascist ideologies. Antifa functions as a political tendency rather than a single formal group, with no central headquarters or leader and secretive membership that prevents exact counts or public leadership identification. The movement gained momentum around 2016, though activist groups used the term earlier and its roots trace to an anti-Nazi German phrase from 1946.
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